Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gates is the tech world's nerd king, Ellison is its Warren Beatty: racing yachts, buying jets, and romancing beautiful women. His rise to fame and fortune is a tale of entrepreneurial brilliance, ruthless tactics, and a constant stream of half-truths and outright fabrications for which the man and his company are notorious. Investigative reporter Mike Wilson, with access to Ellison himself and more than 125 of his friends, enemies, and former Oracle employees, has created an eye-opening, utterly fascinating portrayal of a Silicon Valley success story ... filled with the stuff that dreams and cultural icons are made of.

本书系统地介绍了有关社会变迁的主要理论观点，清晰、准确地分析了社会变迁的原由、发展、模式及其对社会的影响，考察了在多元文化背景下促进或妨碍社会变迁的诸多因素，对促成变迁的方法及其评估方式进行了详细描述，同时对社会变迁中的重大现实问题，如国际恐怖组织、伊拉克战争等进行了深入的探讨和分析。 本书广泛借鉴了人类学、社会心理学、经济学、政治科学和历史学等领域的有关理论，进一步拓展了研究的深度与广度。 新版广泛参考了采用此书的教师和学生的建议，在保持原结构体系不变的前提下进行了内容的充实与修订，关键思想有了新的深入。

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In Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher, a unique world figure, discusses global military, political, and economic challenges of the twenty0first century. The former British Prime Minister brings her unrivaled political experience to comment on the threats that democracy faces at the dawn of the new millennium and the role Western powers should play in the world's hotspots, especially in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Reflecting on the lessons of the Cold War, she outlines the foundation of U.S. dominance and its mission as the only global superpower. Thatcher offers wise observations about the dangers posed by Balkan instability, rogue states, Islamic extremism, and international terrorism -- and suggests strategies to counter them. She also examines current trends in Russia, China, India, the Far East, Europe and Great Britain, and offers guidance for the future. Noting how every contemporary problem evokes demands for a global solution, Thatcher also warns of over-reliance on international institutions

Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses thedeath of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges upsnatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of ayoung woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engravedring??-an artifact of such powerful significance that people havekilled to obtain it. Now he's determined to find the ring's ownerand purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he'lldiscover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a viciousRussian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of theCentral Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert coursedesigned to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered byCongress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it producedBourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, andequal cunning. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clearthat the eventual collision of these

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In 1944,eighteen-year-old university student Leo Litwak finds himself in the middle of the waning European war,a medic trained to save lives but often powerless to do much more than watch life slip away.instead of a rifle he carries bandages, sulfa powder, morphine_and only a red cross to protect him.This is the true story of real people in war _friende and thieves,dreamers and killers,jokers and heroes_as wellas theper-sonal account of a young American plucked from a sheltered,comfort-asble life and sent to a foreign land to save the men fighting to save the world.Few books have portrayed the grit and wonder of war with such eloquence,and still fewer have shown how war looks through the eyes of a soldier whose mission was saving lives,not taking them.

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates' last day. These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue'. All the other translations are new.